Chapters:1. The Polis and its culture2. The Ionians3. Heraclitus4. Pythagoreans and Eleatics5. Empedocles6. Anaxagoras and the atomists7. The Sophists8. Greek arithmetic, geometry and harmonics: Thales to Plato9. Socrates and the beginnings of moral philosophy10. Plato: metaphysics and epistemology11. Plato: ethics and politics12. Plato: aesthetics and psychology

This first volume in the series traces the development of philosophy over two-and-a-half centuries, from Thales at the beginning of the sixth century BC to the death of Plato in 347 BC.